Postscript
Postscript
T
HIS BOOK COLLECTS
the story serialized in
Dengeki Hobby Magazine
from September 2009 to October 2010.
Well, when you take the Evangelions out of the Hakone area, the story suddenly feels less like
Evangelion
, doesn’t it? And
overseas
? Seems completely contrived! I just wanted to write that before someone else had a chance to.
The Valley of Human Bodies, as the locals call it, does, in fact, exist in the Dadès Gorges of Morocco. The formations don’t actually look like people, but in that red canyon are many strangely shaped rocks that resemble internal organs. I saw it on a travel-themed quiz show a long time ago, and I was completely charmed by the cooking vessels used by the locals. The lids looked like conical hats. They’re called tagines, and for a while, they became a cooking fad in Japan, but that’s neither here nor there.
—IKUTO YAMASHITA,
EVANGELION MECHA DESIGNER
EVANGELION MECHA DESIGNER